We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware VSphere is the winner in this comparison. It is easy to deploy, reliable, robust, and has excellent customer support. Hyper-V does come out on top in the pricing category, however.
"It is stable."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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